Google Pixel sees 'highest-ever' quarterly sales on the back of Pixel 9 launch (9to5google.com)
from GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to googlepixel@lemmy.world on 17 Oct 2024 16:51
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In a new report, it’s found that the Google Pixel 9 launch has led to the “highest-ever” sales for a single quarter.

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PlantJam@lemmy.world on 17 Oct 2024 17:41 next collapse

I wonder how much of this can be attributed to the 9 pro being a more normal size? Better camera, no gimmicky curved edge, and still fits in a pocket.

adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev on 17 Oct 2024 17:58 next collapse

Honestly, this thing blows my 6 pro out of the water.

For all those reasons.

tja@sh.itjust.works on 17 Oct 2024 19:18 collapse

I got it for that reason but it still feels too big

[deleted] on 17 Oct 2024 23:12 next collapse
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forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 03:49 collapse

It’s thicker than I’d have hoped, but the side to side decrease in size is amazing compared to my P6P.

I’d take thick over less battery any day.

doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Oct 2024 23:28 next collapse

I see copying Apple’s homework continues to be a lucrative, if boring and dystopian, strategy for phone manufacturers

taanegl@lemmy.ml on 17 Oct 2024 23:36 next collapse

I think it’s great, because you get a good quality phone you can stick Graphene OS on and say fuck off, Google…

Think about it. You get a Google phone, to get further away from Google, because it has the best support for third party ROMs. It’s maddening.

This comment written from a Google Pixel 9.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 18 Oct 2024 01:15 collapse

How’s graphene on the 9? I’m procrastinating but my 5 is dying

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 03:15 next collapse

Apple hasn’t been an industry leader for decades. The reality is actually the opposite of what you said. There’s no innovation coming out of iOS. Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS. iPhone does have some good things going for it, but they’re far from innovators or industry leaders these days.

doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Oct 2024 13:10 next collapse

Didn’t say they were. But the pixel 9 undeniably looks more like an iPhone than previous pixels.

Frankly, I haven’t seen anything I would call innovation from any manufacturer in the smartphone industry in years. Just the occasional parlor trick. The industry is continuing its slow crawl towards more and more similar devices.

And I’m writing this from a pixel 8, for whatever that’s worth.

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 16:13 collapse

Yeah, for what it’s worth, so people don’t think I’m a fanboy, I am on a Pixel 7, but I bought the iPhone 16 Pro, pretty excited to try it out, and returned it within a week. It did not meet my expectations for a $1200 phone.

Lizardking13@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 16:43 collapse

How exactly has apple not been an industry leader? They are the industry leader.

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 17:37 collapse

Didn’t I address that in the comment you’re replying to?

Lizardking13@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2024 20:18 collapse

No, not really. You just stated it over and over again. I think there is a conflation of innovation and industry leader.

So many tech companies try to copy apple. They try to figure out what makes apple successful and mimic that. Apple continues to grow. Their products are largely loved by people. What else do you need to be an industry leader?

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2024 21:49 collapse

Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS.

These are not statements one would make about an innovative industry leader.

echodot@feddit.uk on 18 Oct 2024 04:21 collapse

Yeah because Apple was the first. 🙄

Apple has quite literally never invented anything, everything they do is copying, shut the hell up

WhyFlip@lemmy.world on 17 Oct 2024 23:50 next collapse

Fuck Google.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 18 Oct 2024 01:15 collapse

How daring

WhyFlip@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2024 02:30 collapse

How does “daring” factor in here?

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 18 Oct 2024 02:33 collapse

Bold, even

reddig33@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2024 22:30 collapse

That new camera bump is hideous compared to the previous design.